Delegates to the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of independence in independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, on August 2, 1776.
The delegates included: |George Read | Caesar Rodney | Thomas McKean | George Clymer | Benjamin Franklin | Robert Morris | John Morton | Benjamin Rush |
George Ross | James Smith | James Wilson | George Taylor |
John Adams | Samuel Adams | John Hancock | Robert Treat Paine | Elbridge Gerry Josiah Bartlett | William Whipple | Matthew Thornton | Stephen Hopkins | William Ellery | Lewis Morris | Philip Livingston | Francis Lewis | William Floyd | Button Gwinnett | Lyman Hall | George Walton |
Charles Carroll | Samuel Chase | Thomas Stone | William Paca |
Samuel Huntington | Roger Sherman | William Williams | Oliver Wolcott |
Abraham Clark | John Hart | Francis Hopkinson | Richard Stockton | John Witherspoon |Edward Rutledge | Arthur Middleton | Thomas Lynch, Jr. | Thomas Heyward, Jr. |William Hooper | John Penn | Joseph Hewes
Richard Henry Lee | Francis Lightfoot Lee | Carter Braxton | Benjamin Harrison | Thomas Jefferson | George Wythe | Thomas Nelson, Jr. |
